In 1820, a French orphan named Martin Fugate brought his American bride, Elizabeth Smith, to the isolated banks of Troublesome Creek in eastern Kentucky. Neither could have predicted that their union would launch a medical mystery spanning nearly two centuries. Both carried an extremely rare recessive genetic mutation that turned the blood of four of their seven children a dark chocolate brown, making their skin appear blue. Known to locals as t…
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